Science and Engineer Egg drop
Mr.Landers science class's egg drop
summary
On Tuesday September 4th we started preparing our egg drop. My partner Hunter and I prepared the egg for the egg drop. Until Monday 9th our egg got dropped from a fire truck 60 ft in the air.
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On Monday 9th we had our egg drop everyone's egg got dropped and a lot of them survived. The egg before us had a box around the egg with a parachute and the egg cracked which made my partner Hunter and I very nervous. Then our egg came up Mr.Karcz dropped the egg and luckily the parachute worked, the parachute was spinning which was cool because it looked like a helicopter. After our egg landed we ran up to it to see if it survived or not and sure enough it did!
Materials
2 rubber bands
20 x 20 cm piece of cardboard
3 cotton balls
5 plastic straws
2 pieces of paper
5 packaging peanuts
50 cm kite string
50 cm tape
20 x 20 cm plastic bag
2 dixie cups
5 toothpicks
5 q- tips
3 Popsicle sticks
How we built it
We used 6 cotton balls and 5 packaging peanuts for the padding. We took 2 cups for the outside. We put the string on the end of the paper for a parachute and connected it to the cup with a toothpick. We put 2 rubber bands around the 2 cups to hold it. We took a zip lock bag for under the parachute. That's how our egg survived.